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July 24, 2009, 8:53 a.m.

Links on Twitter: Racial divide in the mobile web, tour of NPR’s new website, New York Times printing plant

Nearly half of blacks and Hispanics in U.S. use the mobile web vs. 32% of all Americans http://tr.im/tFHe »

Video of the day is NPR’s tour of its great-looking, new website with @NPRscottsimon giving it a whirl http://tr.im/tFL4 »

“What can journalism learn from I Can Has Cheezburger?” Tips on filtering user-generated content http://tr.im/tHRS »

Major League Baseball makes a weird distinction on fair use in yanking its footage from The Daily Show http://tr.im/tFMB »

Watch the NY Times roll off the presses in this awesome Flickr set of photos and videohttp://tr.im/tGer (via @donohoe»

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The media becomes an activist for democracy
“We cannot be neutral about this, by definition. A free press that doesn’t agitate for democracy is an oxymoron.”
Embracing influencers as allies
“News organizations will increasingly rely on digital creators not just as amplifiers but as integral partners in storytelling.”
Action over analysis
“We’ve overindexed on problem articulation, to the point of problem admiring. The risk is that we are analyzing ourselves into inaction and irrelevance.”